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Offshore fish ing is about as hot as the weather and the July full moon seemed to produce some big fish for inshore anglers this week.

The offshore runners saw bigeye and yellowfins coming over the rail as well as giant blue marlins that were tagged and released. The continental shelf also has a nice array of sharks, and if that is all you’re looking for, big threshers and blues sharks are not that far from shore.

In the New York Bight, local party boats from Sheepshead Bay to North Jersey enjoyed some nice fluke action, and while there were still lots of shorts there was a healthy number of seven pounders caught. In Jamaica Bay, we hear there are lots of blue claws coming from the bridges and that porgies and sea bass were caught at the Rockaway Reef.

Some of the best porgy action is right in Long Island Sound. Rental boats from City Island are fishing off Orchard Beach and at Harts Island while the party boat fleet is heading to Connecticut and its customers are loading up.

Slammer blues to 15 pounds are also in the Sound and being caught from Larchmont to Rye, and the best area for fluking seems to be by the Throgs Neck Bridge.

Along the South Shore, charter and private boats are trolling up bass and blues in 40 feet of water from Debs to Jones Inlets. There was some decent fluke fishing at the Cholera Grounds.

From Great South Bay to Moriches Bay, you can enjoy the fluke fishing, and while there are still lots of shorts there are more and more keepers, especially outside the inlets. In the bays you’ll find cocktail blues and bass, and now you can also take home some tasty blue claw crabs.

For those of you heading to the East End, you won’t be disappointed. Shinnecock Bay has nice fluke action both in the bay and outside the inlet. The Peconics offer scup and bluefish, and there are big scup in and around Sag Harbor.

The North Fork seems to be loaded with big fluke and there are porgies and sea bass in the Sound, especially off Mattituck.

If you can make your way through the crowds to get to the harbor now that Montauk has become hip and part of the Hamptons, the party boats are scoring with fluke and sea bass, while there are still some big stripers being caught off the Point by the charter fleet.